It might look like a bit like an underwater vacuum cleaner but the Envirocart is set to revolutionise how ships' hulls can be cleaned while still in the water without harming the environment.
Environment
Aug 11, 2014
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Everything you ever wanted to know about quantum simulators summed up in a new review from EPJ Quantum Technology.
Quantum Physics
Aug 11, 2014
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Bioengineers have created three-dimensional brain-like tissue that functions like and has structural features similar to tissue in the rat brain and that can be kept alive in the lab for more than two months.
Biotechnology
Aug 11, 2014
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(Phys.org) —How does consciousness work? Few questions if any could be more profound. One thing we do know about it, jokes biophysicist Luca Turin, is that it is soluble in chloroform. When you put the brain into chloroform, ...
Weather extremes in the summer—such as the record heat wave in the United States that hit corn farmers and worsened wildfires in 2012—have reached an exceptional number in the last ten years. Man-made global warming can ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 11, 2014
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A bizarre group of uniquely shaped organisms known as rangeomorphs may have been some of the earliest animals to appear on Earth, uniquely suited to ocean conditions 575 million years ago. A new model devised by researchers ...
Evolution
Aug 11, 2014
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For half a century biologists have studied the way that the lambda virus parks DNA in the chromosome of a host E. coli bacterium and later extracts it as a model reaction of genetic recombination. But for all that time, they ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 11, 2014
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Native bacteria living inside mosquitoes prevent the insects from passing Wolbachia bacteria—which can make the mosquitoes resistant to the malaria parasite—to their offspring, according to a team of researchers.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 11, 2014
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The White House is announcing the creation of a team of digital experts tasked with upgrading the government's technology infrastructure and making its websites more consumer friendly.
Other
Aug 11, 2014
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Turkish media reports say Turkish scientists will examine a two-headed dolphin that washed up on a beach in western Turkey.
Plants & Animals
Aug 11, 2014
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